Email me your height and measurements (both corseted and not) and I can check with her and see what she's got. There should be a fair number of women in the Bay Area with gowns to sell or swap about now, as the Dickens Fair will start in about a month and folks will be looking to swap, sell or trade up whatever they had from last year.

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I'd give my right arm to have some period Victorian dresses to wear everyday. And a lot of the gorgeous Edwardian stuff, too.

I love some of the Edwardian dresses, too. Also, there are some 1930s clothes that I'd love to have. The latter could probably be adapted to current work wear.

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Thank you so much, JZ. Unfourtunately, the call of diapers and bills over-rides my wanting of the period dresses.

Stoopid money.

t goes and buys lottery tickets

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JZ -- maybe you can help a sister out. I was wondering, from a high level point of view, what the figure goals of various fashion periods were (globally, not just Euro/American).

So, in the 80s, big shoulders were a plus, since that's what the clothes were emulating, but in the 60s the triangle was the other way up, so narrow shoulders (and a flatter chest) were the right body -- that sort of thing.

Where can one find that out?

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Someone on another board posted this, but I thought it was HIGH-larious.

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There should be a fair number of women in the Bay Area with gowns to sell or swap about now, as the Dickens Fair will start in about a month and folks will be looking to swap, sell or trade up whatever they had from last year.

Ooooooh. Really?

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"Do your parents KNOW you're Ramones?"

Love that line so.much.

Daniel - let me add to the "HR needs to make reasonable accommodations" crowd.

Yeah, really. If you can’t care for yourself without scaring silly people, they ought to have some sort of official plan for the proper way they want things done in their place of business, instead of hoping that now you’ll figure it out successfully by yourself.

In back pain news: I thought I was doing pretty well until I got home and removed the back brace. Yeeeeeeeeooooooowwwch. I can’t bend forward at all and have to lower myself into chairs very, very slowly. So today it’s part of my outfit again. It’s very solid and supportive and warm, like a good hug. I’ve disguised the waist-nipping effect beneath loose & comfy clothing, but I’m reminiscing fondly about the hourglass figure I got when I added uplifting foundation garments atop and sweeping skirts below. Sigh. The corset, it does fabulous things for a body. Now I wanna go play costume drama instead of work, how strange.

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ita, you might find what you want at Fashion Era and specifically look for "silhouettes." Each era tended to have its own silhouette from the inverted triangle of the 80s to the narrow column of the 20s.

Also, the two cuts on the right are the Eton Crop you were looking into months ago.

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I'll say this as delicately and euphemistically as possible... if you want your husband to treat your fastball like Albert Pujols and not like Willie Bloomquist, you should probably look into period dresses. Because girls dressed as boys to join the army do not make the husband think of rye bread and mustard.

Hey, I said I was going to do both. Just not for the Civil War, since I don't have the same yen for Victorian clothes that I do the Regency and 1770's styles.

And this is basically a combination of hands-on novel research and a grown-up version of all the imaginary time travel I did as a girl. IOW, I'll find a way to fulfill your fantasies, but it's mostly about fulfilling mine.

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Daniel - let me add to the "HR needs to make reasonable accommodations" crowd.

I'm thinking they'll say that the bathroom is a reasonable accomodation.

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